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| Thu, 04-12-2007 - 6:22pm |
I've been thinking about the recent discussion about "opinions" and the Imus case comes to mind as an example, an extreme example for sure...but an example none the less.
Here's a link to one of the many stories about this issue
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/09/imus.ap/index.html?eref=ew?cid=CNN+Showbiz+Feed
So is it true, if someone

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If your kids attend school, they are used to hearing jokes about physical appearance.
Exactly!
PumpkinAngel
Huh?
PumpkinAngel
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I disagree and making general broad sweeping statements
PumpkinAngel
It's called the etymology of a word. If you know anything about the Oxford English Dictionary, you realize it is the most authoritative dictionary in the English language. It defines nappy as:
2. U.S. slang (freq. derogatory.). Of hair, esp. that of a black person: frizzy.
1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 523 Hair nappy or very spiral. 1927 B. GRANT Nappy Head Blues (song) in R. R. MacLeod Yazoo 1{em}20 (1988) 21 Your head is nappy, your feet's so mamlish long. 1971 Black World June 71/2 Her hair..was in the bushy style that the freedom riders had brought. They called it ‘natural’; Bojack called it nappy. 1987 E. LEONARD Bandits iv. 56 The other one was Creole-looking, a light-skinned black guy with pointy cheekbones and nappy hair.
3. (Sense 2) nappy-haired, -headed adjs. nappy head U.S. slang (derogatory), a black person.
1954 L. ARMSTRONG Satchmo v. 86 She was short and *nappy haired and she had buck teeth. 1995 E. WHITE Farewell Symphony (1998) viii. 311 Kevin was thrilled one night when he picked up a dark, muscular, nappy-haired guy. 1973 Black World Apr. 63 All them ol' *nappy-heads runnin' up there tryin' to pull his clothes off. 1994 A. SINCLAIR Coffee will make you Black xii. 117 Donald yells ‘nappy head’ every time the teacher calls her name. 1896 Atlantic Monthly May 719 Think I must 'a' ben cunjered when I married a man black like George, an' now I has this houseful o' *nappy-headed chillun. 1950 A. LOMAX Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 80 Light-skinned Downtown shared the bandstand with ‘real black and nappy-headed’ Uptown. 1997 Jrnl. Blacks in Higher Educ. No. 17. 92 (caption) Always the big joke was that black people were big-lipped, bug-eyed, nappy-headed, and stupid.
Edited 4/20/2007 10:40 am ET by geschichtsgal
No, I didn't....
PumpkinAngel
So again I ask, how is blonde not a description of appearance?
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